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Thermophysics and Aeromechanics

2009 year, number 4

Experimental determination of superheated liquids boiling-up expectancy time probabilities distribution

E.V. Lipnyagov, S.A. Perminov, G.V. Ermakov, B.M. Smolyak
Keywords: superheated (metastable) liquid, boiling-up expectancy time, non-exponential density of probability distribution, non-stationary nucleation
Pages: 633-640

Abstract

Results of statistical measurement of n-pentane and n-hexane boiling-up expectancy time near the boundary of attainable superheating are presented. Experiments were carried out in glass capillaries with various volumes of superheated liquid. Several samples with the volume from 100 to 200 measurements of life time for preset metastable state have been obtained (p, T = const). Their histograms contain small empty initial section, maximum and long "tail" in the area of large times. Non-monotonous dependence of probability distribution density on time proves non-stationary character of the random process resulting in the production of supercritical embryo. Two simple approximations of non-stationary nucleation flow well describing experimental data have been considered. For exponential distribution, the probabilities of experimentally found peculiarities of boiling-up expectancy time distribution density have been evaluated; they prove incompatibility of this distribution with the experimental one.